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IPad apps Top 6 iPad apps for Geography. By Mark Anderson January 21. National Geographic’s new and improved World Atlas HD puts their best maps in the palm of your hand. £1.49 from iTunes. Globe for iPad. This free app is really good – lightweight, responsive, linking all countries to Wikipedia for instant access to Geography.
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Pros
Handsome maps. Reference information about cities and countries. High-resolution maps and satellite imagery.
Cons
National Geographic's own maps are low resolution. Relies on Bing Maps for higher-resolution versions. Some glitches in locating places and measuring the distance between them. Using the app offline requires huge downloads.
Bottom Line
National Geographic World Atlas is a pretty, if basic, world atlas iPad app that relies on Bing Maps for its higher-res imagery.
The National Geographic World Atlas ($1.99) is a basic atlas iPad app that includes handsomely designed maps, as well as reference data for different countries. National Geographic's own maps are of low resolution; it relies on Bing Maps for all the higher-resolution data. Overall, the National Geographic World Atlas is a disappointment. I expect, and usually get, marvelous things from National Geographic, but this app, which is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, is humdrum.
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The Global View The opening view on the app's homepage shows the Earth as a globe. You can rotate it by swiping in either direction, and zoom in or out by stretching or pinching. At the bottom of the screen are two circles with a line joining them. If you slide one circle on top of a city, and the other on top of a second city, the distance between the two points will appear in a popup box along the line, which moves with the points. This only works if there is a city or town near each point. I tried to measure the distance between New York City and Tristan da Cunha, a South Atlantic island I recently contacted via Ham Radio, but nothing came up. The same was true when the second point was in the Algerian desert. The points also have to be line-of-sight; you can't measure the distance to a place on the far side of the globe, if you have to swipe to get to it.
If you tap on a city, a tab called Location Details appears at the right-hand edge of the screen. Tapping on it brings up information about the country, its capital, and the city you've chosen. Country information includes the area, population, literacy, life expectancy, languages, religions, type of government, currency, GDP, and the country's history. Information about the capital, as well as the city you've chosen, includes the local time, population, and weather. Sometimes border cities are misplaced; when I clicked on the Moroccan city of Tangier, the country information was for nearby Gibraltar.
You can locate cities with a search button (the magnifying glass icon) at the screen's upper right. You can mark a city with a pin by tapping on it, and then touching an Add Pin popup box. The pin will stay in place until you delete it.
Handsome, If Low-Res, Maps The National Geographic maps are handsomely designed, and are standard atlas maps, showing state and country borders, cities, roads, airports, mountain ranges (tall mountains are marked with a cross, listing their elevation in meters), rivers, lakes, and other geographical features. The maps are of relatively low resolution. At their highest zoom, the state of Colorado just about fills my iPad's field of view.
Stretching again brings up the same scene, but in Bing Maps' street view, which offers much higher resolution. Keep zooming, and Coors Field, the baseball stadium, will take up two whole fields of view. Switch to Satellite view, and the diamond and even home plate become visible. Likewise, at Bing Maps' highest resolution, you can see the visitor center on top of Pikes Peak.
At the screen's upper left is an icon with three bars stacked on top of each other. By tapping it, you can access a sidebar that shows the four map views to choose between: National Geographic's own Classic and Executive views, which show the same information, but are styled differently, and Bing's Satellite and Road views. You can change from a National Geographic view to a Bing view of the same scene at any time, but can only switch from Bing to National Geographic when the Bing map's resolution is low enough for there to be an equivalent National Geographic map.
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Also on the sidebar are buttons that let you access a control to show or hide pins, a currency calculator, and a menu to save maps for offline use. They are memory intensive; the Classic view is 460MB, the Executive view is 420MB, the Satellite view is 95MB, and the Road View is 50MB. All of them take a long time to download. Without doing so, however, you can't use the app offline.
The sidebar also promotes other National Geographic apps, and offers a link to its site to shop for printed maps. It's clear at a glance at the printed National Geographic Atlas of the World that the app is but the palest shadow of it. Granted, even the softcover Atlas of the World costs $120, but it contains a wealth of maps, photographs, charts, and descriptions of all nations on Earth, as well as the ocean floor and even space. The maps in National Geographic World Atlas (for iPad) are pretty, and the atlas works okay (with a few glitches), but it doesn't begin to capture the wonder I associate with the National Geographic name. If I had wanted to view high-resolution content on Bing Maps, I could have gone there on my own, for free.
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Bottom Line: National Geographic World Atlas is a pretty, if basic, world atlas iPad app that relies on Bing Maps for its higher-res imagery.
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